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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Elizabeth Tilney

Elizabeth Tilney married Sir Thomas Howard the first Earl of Surrey. She wasthe daughter and heiress of Sir Frederick Tilney, and Widow of Sir HumphreyBouchier. Sir Thomas married secondly Agnes Tilney. a cousin of Elizabeth's.

A number of children by both wives left descendants, through the Ducal linecomes through the first wife, Elizabeth, as does the Southern family inAmerica.

Thomas Howard, the Third Duke was their eldest son. The American family tracesthrough his third son Lord Edmund Howard, who was married to Joyce Culpepper.